@LukeAlmighty Literal Game Journalist mode.

@LukeAlmighty Watching the video - OMFG

Why not just provide a Story/Cutscene-Only option with zero gameplay at this point?

@LukeAlmighty Also, what does it say about the artistic integrity and narrative cohesiveness of a game that's supposedly set in this incredibly dangerous, deadly world where people constantly get killed, having such braindead baby mode difficulty settings?

@LukeAlmighty Revenge Is Bad, so kill everyone EXCEPT the creature who wronged you.

@LukeAlmighty @ChristiJunior The only black lives that matter are those taken by wypepo, therefore it's okay.

@LukeAlmighty @Shining Also, Vader was Luke's father, and Luke saw parallels between the path Vader had taken, and the path he himself could take. Also, the super-evil Emperor WANTED Luke to kill Vader. Yeah, see, there it makes sense.

Here's what doesn't make sense: Not killing the creature who murdered your father figure because of a brief flashback of the victim you want to avenge. Not a flashback of him condemning revenge, not a flashback of him being hurt by his own lust for revenge, but a super-short flashback of him with his guitar. Maybe it's 2Deep4Me, maybe the guitar represents the preciousness and fragility of life to Ellie, but to me it just looks fucking retarded.

@ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty Big reach on the guitar.

For all we know, the flashback is of the tree the guitar was made from wishing that everyone involved just used it to fucking hang themselves, and by proxy, the player

How's that for symbolism

@ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty Life is so horrible and people are irredeemably evil, yet society is still compassionate enough to support so many retards and cripples that they're a viable target demographic.

@ArdanianRight @LukeAlmighty I mean, if Abby is actually a tranny...

But seriously, some types of games really shouldn't be super easy. Hell, when I made a Spooky snow level in Mario Maker 2, I made sure the level was more difficult than my earlier, more casual levels, because I wanted the player to be on edge and nervous while playing.

@ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty On Sony and reviews, a couple things to note:

On another title, Metal Gear Solid 5, Konami's deep pockets were able to buy good reviews. Despite it being an incomplete shitshow nightmare and one of the worst in the franchise, journalists let this fly under the auspices of Konami setting a rigid schedule and limiting what they could and couldn't say via an NDA that reached further than most any NDA in gaming before

Kojima didn't enjoy this same luxury with Death Stranding, despite being funded directly by Sony, therefore a lot of the reviews were less than kind to Norman Reedus and the Funky Fetus

Sony will pay it off when they think they're sitting on something valuable. I have something of a vested interest in seeing TLoU2 crash and burn because so many of the same people took a nuclear shit on Death Stranding

@Shining @LukeAlmighty Didn't Konami have a fucking review camp or something like that set up for MGS5?

@ChristiJunior @LukeAlmighty Yeah. Konami really, really wanted those reviews so badly they paid Sony to go in between journalists to ensnare them in this crock. Not that I have much sympathy for them: most the time, they lead people astray

This is but one example of the glaring hypocrisy involved. Kojima didn't toe the line enough for batshit leftypol Sony despite being a shitlib himself, so they deferred to Dreck Man and his insipid creation to generate interest with the social justice crowd.

Death Stranding wanted to use surrogate futuristic concepts to explain the particulars of its lore (I won't go into spoilers here, I don't have much of a problem with that game other than its unremarkable landscape)

With MGS5, they didn't want to let it slip that the remaining three chapter (an entire 40 hours of story content vaporized from the script!) was cut from the game due to tensions between KP, Sony and Konami. Thus, did they invent the "review camp" method so Sony got what it wanted and Kojima and crew could get off relatively clean.

It didn't work in retrospect: each MGS game that preceded it was infinitely better. Everything in 5 was present in Peace Walker, the bones of that system are deep in 4, the stealth element with wearable camouflage (if a little convoluted) was present in 3, and the 3D stealth overhead gameplay was the cornerstone in 1 and 2.

MGS5 brought nothing new to the table. Sony knew, and still paid for top ratings, because that was their money maker.